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Monday, June 8, 2009

How to Think Like a Fool #31: Compete with Yourself

PLAY: Compete with YourselfContinuing on with the concept of fools playing games, here they take on their most formidable opponent—their own selves. It's the only fair competition, because they are evenly matched, and even when they lose, they win.

Similar to being in front of an audience, competition can give you an adrenaline boost or cause anxiety or both. Ideally, competition encourages you to perform at your best and push yourself beyond your self-imposed limits.

Psychologists theorize that we don't have one self, but many selves that come into play depending on the circumstances. If this is the case, we have a whole team of players available to us, pitting the better ones against the worst ones.

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About Drew the Dramatic Fool

Drew Richardson"If Teller of ‘Penn & Teller’ had ever become pregnant by Harpo Marx, Drew Richardson would be the one to arrive out of that strange scientific amalgamation." —Film Threat

I've been studying, teaching, and performing Visual Comedy Theater for the past 20 years. I was also the first person in the 21st century to make new short silent movies for mainstream movie theaters.http://www.dramaticfool.com